The Garden Cinema

In partnership with The Canary UK, the Rainbow Collective screened their latest feature doc at the Garden Cinema. The filmmaking duo, also behind To Kill a War Machine, joined us after the film to di...

Sophy Romvari joins our head curator George Crosthwait to discuss her feature debut Blue Heron.

Recorded on 27th June 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ

Mae West’s liberated view of female sexuality gave impetus to the new guidelines for industry censorship known as the Hays Production Code – which, for many film historians, is the very reason Screwball Comedy exists. The genre was born as a reaction to the Code, finding ever more inventive ways to subvert it. Featuring a very young Cary Grant – a Screwball Comedy regula...

Joining our panel are screenwriter and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz, whose film Hot Milk was based on Deborah Levy’s novel of the same name, and screenwriter and director Julia Jackman, who adapted Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel 100 Nights of Hero, based on the Middle Eastern folktale One Thousand and One Nights. They discuss their experiences adapting material as we...

Part of Lebanon Cinema Days in the UK. Mounia Akl is a Lebanese screenwriter, director and actress, and A Sad And Beautiful World was Lebanon’s official entry for the Oscars. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Audience Award, and was selected in festivals around the world, including the London Film Festival, Palm Springs, Cinemed, the Mostra in ...